I’m starting to feel this way as well. Our club and wonderful volunteers have worked bloody hard to keep the reserves going, we could easily have sacked it off and put money into the first team and DR.
The Halifax area is always being raided by SL clubs and maybe that’s the reason.

The RFL can get to feck.

We're in... rlhttps://www.rugby-league.com/article/55496/line-up-for--reserve-grade-finalisedrl

Well that’s both good news and a relief, well done to everyone at Fax for all the hard work, getting the infrastructure in place and the application right.

This is great news and more so much deserved.

However funding may be an issue.
As I understand it once again the scales will have someone's hand pressing down on certain clubs and for all the hard work fax as put in that will mean nothing when the supergreed come to divvy up funds.

It looks like the league will be at least 14 strong. Now quite a few players will come from the academy age dropping from 19 to 18 and of course clubs can keep players on the fringes fresh but clubs will have to name 19 players week in week out.

Where do they find the other players to bolster the ranks? Are we going to see a situation were the clubs who are getting funding , use that to take away talent from fan run clubs like fax?

I think it sucks and personally think clubs such as fax , Newcastle etc should have more money pumped into this venture than our world beaters in SL

Agree MC as always the scales are tipped against us Would it help player numbers if squads were reduced to 15 on match day ?

A good way maybe at looking at it Bentley but I've always been a little more swayed to the opposite way.i believe that maybe reserve games should be run as friendly matches and an unlimited bench should be permitted so clubs in particular like us can field lads on trial from local clubs and not have the burden of contracts .

I know that if fax keep the lads they already have and build on that they will be a match for anyone on their day